The Proposal: Marie and John met one evening in the Lakeview District of Birmingham when John stopped Marie to ask her heritage. She looked like his Lebanese family, but her family was actually Egyptian. Instantly, Marie knew this was the man she would marry. On her birthday, John asked Marie to dinner, but wanted her to come by his house to open a gift from his mother. Inside a bag with her soon-to-be new initials on it, she discovered a ring, and John was on one knee.